The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-09
WOMEN IN WASHINGTON
NyOY LIFE A THOUSAND TIMES
MORE THAN MEN,
And Often Flourish and Splurge
With a Mere Crust to Separate
Them From Poverty.

cue tTom their swell neighOofs OF
Gotham, have discontinued the prsc
tice OF receiving new year calls, but
there are others, chiefly in official cir
clee, who like to feel 1t incumbent
upon them, and cstentatiously enjoy
the Prerequisites" OF their short lived
= romIneLce.
The desdest death is that Of poll.
tician; cremation isn't circumstances
utter humiliation overiakes him
and all Of his belongings. Elk Preei.
dents, ex.Senators, ex.Secretsries all
slip out, and leave not trace behind.
Rsprese natives, unless they be excep.
iionsl men, like Carlisle or Morrison
OF Sunset Cox, don't count for much,
even when they are at the high tide
al p lpulaTity with their constituencies.
Now, the truth is that women enjoy
Washington life q thousand times
more than men do. A woman like
Mrs. Logan, who loves the glare of the
ioollight5, and could never be happy
unless che had an admiring
audience OF stalwart Republicans,
while she attitudiniz d as the devoted
vile would rather die than be Tele-
gated to obscurity. But she will have
10 20. II 10 The memorable law. II is
said here that Logan's dependency
and i'll health followed upon his dis
and chsgrin in regard to
the sale OF bis book; that he expected
il TO be equally as successful as Grants,
aud as il has been comparative fail
nre he felt that he had lost his grip
npon the "people"--that very uncer-
tain quantity. When his body lay in
state at the Capitol Mrs Logan was
asked II che had any preference as to
the fifteen Representatives which GUS
tom dictates shall bs selected as q
guard OF honor. She Immediately re.
sponded with list OF thirty names, in
Bisting upon that number. At the
{ emet, ry she was too much over.
come H. get out oil the carriage, but
remained long enough TO select such
oil the flowers as she wished to be car
ried to her house, making a nice dis
Grimm alton In favor OF the orchids
and ttheIs equally expensive. 1t is
curious and rather startling to find
here 30 often after mans death that
he Is positively bankrupt, while for
years his family has lived at the foun-
lain head OF luxury. Dinner parties,
gorgeous apparel, fine equipages, ali
going merry as marriage bell until
grim Death tears aside the veil and
discloses the hollow mockery sus-
tanned by debts and beggsry. In the
midst OF this vulgar and baselees as
sumption i often feel constrained to
point with pride to some OF the wom-
on Of my own State, such ps the wives
OF our Senators, Mrs. Waltball and
Mrs. George or Mrs. Muldrow,
wife Ct the First Assistat Secretary OF
the Treasury, who justify all the
sweet laudation that poet has ever
sung 10 woman's worth; their names
are synonymous Of wifely devotion
and they appear in society with that
grace and dignity which is their birth
right, and which is as unlike as posi-
bio the jackdaw plumsge OF some of
their neighDors. A singular story is
told in army circles OF certain POM
pous general who was prominent
figure upon some public occasion.
Seated on the platform for the recsp.
ton Of distinguished guests was the
wits Of member" whom he recog-
niEsd as his laundress in the far West,
Then he was only y lieutenant. In
due course oil time they were intro.
ducsd and she patroniziDgly informed
him that even army officers were
admitted into good society in Wash.
ineton"-tab eau.
The wife OF young ensign in the
navy, whose husband ia away on a
prolonged cruise, not long since i'm
parted to one Of her friends that she
really needed the next installment OF
h,r husbands salary very badly, for
her little boy had been wearing his
rubber boots without any shoes for
days; but when the money came she
ceocluded that the rubber boots would
still do for out of doore, and a cheap
pair OF slippers would answer for the
house, because she had to buy a new
vase Tor the psr,or, and an evening
drets for her sister, Who was campaign
ing for a naval husband.
But OF all places under the sun,
Washington is the poortss as matri-
monial market. The skillful widows,
the meids Of countless seasons, the
roteOuds just ont, all waste their bril-.
liancy and sweetness in vain. The
sprlgs oil the army and navy cannot
live on their small salaries, aud
they move heaven aud earth
10 Oe stationed here go that they can
flnl rich girl. The yaung men in
the departments, as a rule, ere busy
studying profession, devoting them.
selves variously to law, medicine, Jour
nalism and authorship, aud, while
willing TO take little recreation, ac.
cotdlng to the goods the gods provide,
they do not want t. marry. All this
pre- ternatuIal sharpness and calcula.
zion DOES not enhence the charms OF
tociety, bu' il lesves TIE girls % wise
NJ the children Of light. Some months
tince two Of the ieunfss4 doIee invited
tsn sisters, OF a wealthy Georgetown
II mily, to 90 to the theater; they ac-
cepted, and during the evening one OF
the young men reached over careless
ly and took the diamond pin OF one of
the girls from her wrap. Some days
elapsed and he returned to Prince ton,
where lie was a student, without re-
turning the pin. She wrCts to him
that when he and his friend asked
herself and sister to the theater,
e1e was rot aware that
they would be expected TO pay for the
caui 'ge and purchase the tickets, but
il he would tend her tina pawn ticket
ahe would redeem her property. At
the expiration o. five months her own
pin vas restored with the lame ex-
planat on that hers was lost, and he
had bu Just succeeded in du plicstinQ Il,
laughy is crowding Albaugh's
OPere House every night with fash
ionRble audiences. Her costumes are
mTvels Of beauty and are an immense
assistance 10 her. Certainly her kind
est fisnd could never call her an
n tress IN any sense. The play, A
Wfes Peri. really affords no scope for
drama ic eff 'ct, but der no circum.
stances conld she simulats that pas
sion and fervor which she is wholly
Incapable Of experier cinS or com IRE
heRding She looks fully thirty.fve,
even In her stage make ~; her figure
4 10.